Venus Square Jupiter: Always Wanting More than You Have

With Venus and Jupiter at cross purposes, your hopes for love and pleasure run high, and you easily overgive and overspend. Once you learn to tell when enough is enough, generosity becomes a blessing. This page starts from what Venus governs (love, taste, values and money) and what Jupiter governs (growth, opportunity and belief), then looks at how the square makes the two interact, how it tends to show up in everyday life, its strengths and blind spots, and some advice for it.

Venus Square Jupiter at a glance

Percentages are our own calculation from 8,401 charts of people born in Taipei between 1960 and 2005 with random birth times, using the same orbs as our chart calculator.

The core meaning of Venus Square Jupiter

Venus is about liking and satisfaction. Jupiter is about expansion and more. The square has these two normally mild planets jostling each other, and the result is trouble with proportion. Your liking easily swells into excessive expectation, and your generosity easily becomes giving beyond your means. You go shopping for one item and come to the register with several bags. You have just met someone and already imagine them far better than they are. Nothing here is bad in itself. The amount is simply off, again and again.

This is one of the less painful squares. The person with it often feels no pressure, though those nearby can see you straining to keep up appearances. The conjunction’s abundance comes naturally. The square carries a dissatisfaction, a sense that there ought to be something better and more, so you keep raising the stakes. Its thrust lies right there too. You are not content with a small canvas and will work for a better life, and once you train your sense of measure, this appetite turns into real ambition.

How it feels inside

There is often a feeling in you that it is not enough yet. You have just bought what you wanted, and before long you have your eye on something else. Your relationship is perfectly steady, and still you wonder whether other couples have it more exciting. You imagine a great deal for your life, which keeps you from being bored and also keeps you from being content. In a bad mood you tend to compensate with eating, shopping, and fun, and regret it a little afterward. Practice counting what you already hold before wanting more, and you will feel far more grounded.

In love and relationships

In love you give big and expect big. When you are courting you hold nothing back, not time, not money, not sweet words, and meanwhile you draw a beautiful blueprint for the relationship in your mind. When daily life turns out less dazzling, the letdown arrives. You may also promise too much in order to be liked and wear yourself out. Among friends you are often the one grabbing the check. Keep your giving in line with what you can actually afford, and relationships will not turn into burdens.

At work and in getting things done

At work you have an eye for making things bigger. Your proposals have more sweep than most, and clients and managers are easily won over by your enthusiasm. The hard part is delivery. Budgets set too loosely, timelines estimated too hopefully, and too many projects taken on at once are typical of this aspect. With money, you can earn it and not keep it, spending especially on appearances and pleasure. Get in the habit of tracking expenses, or have someone you trust look over the numbers before you sign, and you will avoid most of the trouble.

Strengths

• Thinking big: You do not settle for making do. You imagine more for your life and your work, and you are willing to strive and experiment for a better possibility.
• Open-handed: You hold nothing back for the people you love and for your friends. You are glad to treat, to give, and to help, and those around you feel your warmth.
• Persuasive: When you talk about something you believe in, it is contagious. You can make others see the blueprint too, which suits promotion and pitching.

Blind spots

• A faulty sense of measure: Spending, eating, and promising all tend to run over. It seems fine at the time, and only later do you see it was more than you could carry.
• Expectations too high: You picture people and relationships as too wonderful. When reality lags behind, the disappointment is sharp, and you may even want to move on to the next.
• Compensating with pleasure: When you feel bad, you soothe yourself by shopping or eating. The problem is not solved, and you have added a bill and a regret.

Advice for Venus Square Jupiter

Set a visible standard for “enough.” Before shopping, write down what you intend to buy and a spending limit, and if you go over, decide the next day. Before agreeing to help or to treat, check your time and your wallet. In love, whenever you feel unsatisfied, try naming exactly what is missing. Is it companionship, novelty, or appreciation? A need you can put into words is usually not that big, and it is easier to meet.

What to keep in mind when reading this aspect

1. The tighter the orb, the more it matters. In our calculations, only 13.6% of all major aspects are within 1° of exact, and 41.2% are within 3°. If your Venus square Jupiter is tight, the traits on this page will be more noticeable; if it is close to the 7° limit, they will be much fainter.

2. Applying and separating. An aspect is applying when the two planets are moving toward the exact angle and separating once they have passed it. Tradition holds that an applying aspect is still taking shape and acts more strongly. Our chart calculator marks which one you have.

3. Watch for out-of-sign aspects. Two planets in square are usually in signs of the same modality (both cardinal, both fixed or both mutable), but an aspect is measured by actual distance. In our calculations, 13% of squares do not match the usual sign relationship (one planet late in a sign, the other early in another). The nature of the aspect is still there; it just shows up in a less typical way.

4. Most people born on the same day share this aspect. Venus and Jupiter move only a little in a day. The difference lies in which houses they fall in on your chart, and that depends on your birth time; see Planets in the Houses.

5. Then look at each planet’s own placement. The signs Venus and Jupiter are in decide how each one expresses itself; see Planets in the Signs. If either planet has other aspects, read them together. For a complete reading, use the In-Depth Chart Reading.

Other aspects between Venus and Jupiter

Conjunction · Sextile · Square · Trine · Opposition

The square with other planets

Venus: Moon square Venus, Venus square Mars, Venus square Saturn, Venus square Uranus, Venus square Neptune, Venus square Pluto.

Jupiter: Sun square Jupiter, Moon square Jupiter, Mercury square Jupiter, Mars square Jupiter, Jupiter square Saturn, Jupiter square Uranus, Jupiter square Neptune, Jupiter square Pluto.

All Venus aspects · All Jupiter aspects · Planet aspects overview